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...Vienna talks, the Soviets are almost certain to insist that any treaty should include provisions allowing both nations to build ABM shields, and permitting either party to renege on certain agreements later if the Chinese military threat should increase. Thus, the Chinese development may set off another upward spiral in the nuclear race...
There is something strange, say some visitors to Israel, when, every hour on the hour, a whole country stops to listen to the news. There is something wrong, they remark, when the sound of an airplane makes a whole nation look upward and sigh with relief when the plane is recognized as a friend...
When news of the invasion reached the New York Stock Exchange, averages declined four points in a frenzy of panic. But after the initial shock, they resumed their upward swing and rose rapidly to 13 points above Tuesday's level in one of the market's best sessions this year...
...article on that page was about the cult of Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. A photograph accompanying the articles showed a black man unloading crates from a truck. The caption to the photo read, "Scientology can change intelligence upward at the rate of one point per hour,' L. R. Hubbard...
...friend of mine became disturbingly fanatic about it and began spewing forth a most incredible stream of theories and arcane terminology. All of which are purportedly based upon painstaking "scientific" research. "Thus, along with science, Scientology can achieve positive invariable results," writes L. Ron Hubbard. "Scientology can change intelligence upward at the rate of one point per hour." Hubbard continues, "The amount of benefit to be gained from Dianetics exceeded anything that Man had ever been able to do for anybody in the history of the human race." Finally, "Scientology is the most vital movement on Earth today...